“Translated: There is another and a better world.”

— August von Kotzebue , book Menschenhass und Reue

Es gibt noch ein anderes, besseres Leben.
Menschenhass und Reue (1798), Act I, scene 1; repeated by another character in Act III, scene 1. This title translates as Misanthropy and Repentance, but is known in English as The Stranger; translated by N. Schink, London, 1799.

Original

Es gibt ein anderes, besseres Leben!

Menschenhaß und Reue (1798), III, 1 (Der Unbekannte). Schauspiel in fünf Akten. Leipzig: Kummer, 1819. S. 78.
Variant: Es gibt noch ein anderes, besseres Leben.

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